41 Tasting Notes

Despite my BIGFANCYCLAIMS to the contrary, I have not been diligently logging my tea drinking. I am having a cup of Constant Comment now. I wonder where they get the orange seeds from. An orange juice company? Were they cheap at first? But then did the orange juice company suspect something was up and try to jack up the price? Who won?

Hey Jack, have you tried some loose leaf teas? They are more flavorful and interesting. You can even get paper filters to use so you can toss it when done steeping, just like tea bags. It’s good to find some other male tea fans.

I have had many cups of tea in the past month or so that I have forgotten to log. Pardon me! To avoid getting things too exciting as I ease back into the world of tea logging, I have prepared a cup of a Twinings Earl Grey, a pleasant tea, but not one very likely to overstimulate.

It is unclear what relation this tea has to the Fleet Foxes song “White Winter Hymnal.” In one hypothetical scenario, Robin Pecknold becomes so bored drinking this pleasant but fairly mild tea that he suddenly writes a song to keep himself entertained for the moments it will take him to drink the remainder of his tea.

This tea weirds me out a little bit for political reasons. I suppose a plantation is just a place with plants, but I cannot help but associate it with America’s unhappy history in the slave trade. But the tea’s fine.